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England, Jersey, and Australia and has been involved in many captive for release wildlife
conservation programmes. He is co-author of the CBSG publication 'Animal Movements and
Disease Risk' (2002); consultant to NZ Department of Conservation on wildlife health and
disease risk issues - primary application of DRA tools has been in relation to wildlife
translocations within New Zealand but increasingly addressing the growing need to apply these
tools to disease risks to wildlife in situ.
richard.jakob-hoff@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Dr. Phil Miller
Phil is a Senior Program Officer with the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG), an
international wildlife conservation organization that is part of the Species Survival Commission
of the IUCN. Academically trained as a population geneticist and conservation biologist (PhD,
Arizona State University), Phil integrates the use of computer simulation approaches for
population viability analysis with group facilitation tools to develop conservation strategies
across a broad diversity of endangered wildlife species and against an equally diverse human
cultural background. Through planning and conducting more than 75 risk assessment workshops
in nearly 40 countries around the world, he has helped local people plan for endangered species
conservation in the explicit context of human activities on the landscape. Phil has also been
involved in CBSG’s Disease Risk Assessment project since the mid-1990’s, focusing primarily
on the collaborative development of the disease dynamics simulation model called Outbreak, now
used by CBSG and colleagues around the world to explore the impacts of disease on wildlife
populations. His new area of research involves the integration of population viability analysis
with tools from the field of decision analysis to help local wildlife management officials make
more informed decisions for species and habitat conservation.